Steam/Valve has an effective platform monopoly - but that isn’t anti-consumer...? Like, you don’t get more anti-consumer than a platform or service that has a monopoly on their product because they can literally get away with dictating their business model - because people have nowhere else to go.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Bloodlines 2 isn’t out until next March, by the looks of things. Epic is expecting publishers/developers to put their games on sale long before they even release?

You know what’s fucking scary? The fact that there exist people—ostensibly left-wing people—who think that the most opportune time to question free speech ideals is when a dude they invariably believe to be a literal fascist white supremacist is sitting in the White House. It’s utterly baffling to me that this is the…

But remember everyone, Hillary wasn’t inspiring enough. That is more important.

Chambliss and his ilk know people will die because of this law, because no one cares this much abortion without taking the time to understand the repercussions of banning it. They understand. They simply don’t care.

If you think of yourself as even a slightly political person, and this takes up any space on your radar, you need to rethink your priorities in life. It literally does not matter that Tiger Woods went to the White House to accept a medal. Even if it’s a political act, and even if it signals that Woods is a bona fide MA…

This is not Bernie’s fault.

Okay, so this is coming from the perspective of someone who has literally no idea about makeup whatsoever. But ... from where I’m standing, it seems like James Charles is like a musician who only knows scales, and that’s it. There’s zero in the way of taste or discernment, or whatever the analogue would be, in the…

So is it weird to anybody else that being “good” at makeup application apparently means making yourself look like a goddamned clown in a “clean” way? Why are people like James Charles held up as these great makeup artists when everything about them looks caked-on and clownish?

How could you possibly know that the women giving you dirty looks were “overprivileged 9-5 mummies with paid help”? Did they have their children and paid help with them, or something?

Yeah, okay, so what does this even fucking mean? What would “breaking up Facebook” look like in practical terms?

Agreed. A good way to counteract those things is to not use Facebook.

Of that list, none of them are like Facebook, just like Facebook is nothing like the old MySpace, nor do they offer anyway to post more than minusculeamounts of information at a time.

I listed off numerous alternatives. Any platform that vies for users’ social media communication screen time is an alternative, even if it doesn’t function exactly like Facebook does.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people seem to think that the best time to start questioning the legitimacy of free speech values is when a guy they very loudly and publicly perceive to be a literal fascist occupies the White House. Like, are these motherfuckers just dumb, or what?

To those hoping that our government will try to pass some sort of legislation along these lines, just know that it absolutely would open the door for them to ban any sort of arbitrary expression that the ruling party, at any given moment, happens not to like. If you want to argue that it’s the best move to make…

Watch it right now. It’s good.

Agreed. At the same time, I think that a lot of people just haven’t really looked into the complete range of options all that much. It isn’t either learn to code or enter the service industry. Allied health is a particularly rewarding area that a person can start working in, sometimes with little, if any, credentials…

Nobody gives a flying fuck, and you’re dismissed anyway for being a bad-faith piece of shit. Seriously, the “show me linx brah” thing is the absolute height of Extremely Online trolling. If you want to know some shit that I was never interested in presenting because it wasn’t germane to my point, you can research it…

All social media platforms are competing with one another. Even Instagram cannibalizes usage rates from Facebook. Others not owned by Facebook include Twitter, Youtube, Twitch, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest, and Tumblr. “Valid competition” doesn’t, and never has, implied total parity in market share. Trying to turn this…